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"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, pseudoscience, history, and pseudohistory (and anything else that interests him)
Orac is the nom de blog of a (not so) humble pseudonymous surgeon/scientist with an ego just big enough to delude himself that someone, somewhere might actually give a rodent's posterior about his miscellaneous verbal meanderings, but just barely small enough to admit to himself that few will. (Continued here, along with a DISCLAIMER that you should read before reading any medical discussions here.)
Orac's old Blog is archived at Archived Insolence.
July 31, 2010
Category: Medicine
Two days ago, I posted my utter contempt for the idea of a science section in that cesspit of pseudsocience, New Age woo, and quackery, The Huffington Post. Part of the reason for my scoffing at the very idea that...
Posted by Orac at 10:00 AM • 55 Comments •
July 30, 2010
Category: Friday Woo
A couple of days ago, I expressed my amusement at an e-mail sent to me by someone named "Carol." The amusement came primarily from the subject matter in the e-mail, which described something called a "biophoton ionizer," whatever that is....
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 58 Comments •
Category: Medicine
I've been a staunch defender of the ethical use of animals in research over the years. However, one area of animal research that I've always thought should be held to the highest standard is primate research. If there's one area...
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 5 Comments •
July 29, 2010
Category: Medicine
Funny how everything old is new again, isn't it? Yes, if there's one thing I've learned over nearly six years of blogging, it's that, sooner or later, everything is recycled, and I do mean everything. At least, that was the...
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 28 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Nancy Snyderman isn't helping. At least, she wasn't helping yesterday. Don't get me wrong. I like the fact that NBC's Chief Medical Editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman is a staunch defender of vaccination. She's one of the rare talking head doctors...
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 106 Comments •
July 28, 2010
Category: Skepticism/critical thinking
One of the odd things about blogging is the e-mail. True, I don't get anything near the quantity, quality, or sheer weirdness of the e-mail that, for example, PZ Myers, gets, but I do get my share. Some of it's...
Posted by Orac at 9:01 AM • 49 Comments •
July 27, 2010
Category: Medicine
About three weeks ago, fresh after having experienced my own attack by anti-vaccine activists who tried to get me fired, I noticed that Doctors Data was doing what cranks and crank organizations can't resist doing when they face scientific criticism,...
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 150 Comments •
Category: Medicine
On Friday, I noted an e-mail circulating around the Internet in which disgraced University of Kentucky chemist and card-carrying general in the mercury militia, Boyd Haley, announced that he was suspending sales of his industrial chelator turned "antioxidant dietary supplement"...
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 16 Comments •
July 26, 2010
Category: Medicine
f there's one aspect of so-called "alternative medicine" and "complementary and alternative medicine" (CAM) is that its practitioners tout as being a huge advantage over what they often refer to sneeringly as "conventional" or "scientific" medicine is that -- or so its practitioners claim -- alt-med treats the "whole patient," that it's "wholistic" in a way that the evil reductionist "Western" science-based medicine can't be
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 83 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Here's something for the more creative types out there at The Examining Room of Dr. Charles: The first annual Charles Prize for Poetry will be awarded to the writer who submits for consideration the most outstanding poem within the context...
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 2 Comments •
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